WASPS

SOCIAL AND SOLITARY

BY

GEORGE W. PECKHAM

AND

ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

JOHN BURROUGHS

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JAMES H. EMERTON

“Bold sons of air and heat, untamed, untired.”—Iliad, Book XVII

BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1905

COPYRIGHT 1905 BY GEORGE W. PECKHAM AND ELIZABETH G. PECKHAM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April, 1905